Harbinger Showcase

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we explore the eight month long Calgary Herald strike and how the 2000 labour action pushed back against right-wing editorial overreach and unfair treatment in the newsroom on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE and present a long listen from...

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: unpack the political philosophy of fascism on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN talk leadership with Al-Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network on GREEN PLANET MONITOR explain h ow disinformation foments anti-Palestinian racism and Islamo...

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: explore the centenary of Germany’s failed 2023 socialist revolution on VICTOR’S CHILDREN examine the legal dimensions of Israel’s escalating Gaza assault on THE BREACH SHOW unpack the unhinged resolutions at last week’s U...

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: talk international mobilization for Palestinian rights on CJPME DEBRIEF reveal how nationalistic narratives distract us from a better understanding of tech in the US and China on TECH WON’T SAVE US explain the little-know...

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode: a proposed wind-to-hydrogen megaproject is meeting significant resistance from Newfoundland communities on THE INDEPENDENT'S BERRYGROUNDS the environmental justice movement’s silence on Palestine on GREEN MAJORITY how Shelte...

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode: Martin Lukacs reports back from the 2023 NDP convention on THE BREACH SHOW former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights Michael Lynk discusses war crimes in Gaza on GREEN PLANET MONITOR an interview unpacking how...

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: look at labour actions, picket lines, labour boards and the role employer's dirty tricks play on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE talk with the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives’ David Macdonald about the CCPA’s annual alterna...

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: sit down with Simeon Tshakapesh and Anastasia Qupee to explore Newfoundland and Labrador’s Inquiry Respecting the Treatment, Experiences and Outcomes of Innu in the Child on The Independent ’s BERRYGROUNDS talk with the C...

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: talk with Naomi Klein about her new book Doppleganger on THE BREACH SHOW explore how people labeled with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been confined by the state on INVISIBLE INSTITUTIONS ask Migrant Wo...

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: unpack cooperative systems for food production on HALF PAST CAPITALISM explain how dark money networks from out-of-province have set their sights on Manitoba's election on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES explore how Newfoundland &...

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: unpack the 2020 book A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency with author and activist Seth Klein on PULLBACK talk regularization and exploitation with Justice For Migrant Workers on LABOUR INTENSIVE ask wh...

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: look at the decline of medicare from 1944 to today on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN unpack Bill C-18 and Facebook/Instagram’s scorched earth policy banning Canadian journalism on TECH WON’T SAVE US examine the shifting political...

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: speak with socialist scholars from Russia and Ukraine in a conversation explaining Putin's war on VICTOR’S CHILDREN in Winnipeg unpack the negative impact of the Canadian Blood Services' 15-year deal with a for-profit pla...

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: discuss the media’s role in movement building with The Grind publisher David Gray-Donald on CIUT’s environmental news show GREEN MAJORITY in Toronto unpack a landmark Quebec Superior Court decision that found police stops...

On Gender Sex & Tech S2,E3 host Jennifer Jill Fellows welcomes sextech academic Chloe Locatelli for a conversation exploring her research on sex robots, relationships with technologies and how the personification and gamification of sex tech is specifically marketed and targeted at heterosexual men. Gender Sex & Tech engages with scholars to examine technology using a feminist intersection...

Seventy-eight years ago, on August 6, 1945, the US dropped a uranium-enriched fission bomb, code named ‘Little Boy’, on the Japanese port city, Hiroshima. Three days later, they dropped a second bomb, a plutonium-implosion device — Fat Man — on Nagasaki. When the dust settled, between 130 and 225,000 people were dead or dying. To this day, casualty numbers vary widely. One thing is clear: almost a...

The world is a mess, and boomers like Patrick Esmond-White share the blame. It will take both imagination and action for our grandchildren to get through the endless crisis now upon us. But it is possible, and there are many reasons for hope. The first step is to think totally outside of the proverbial box. Suspend your disbelief. Re-Imagine Canada. Canada Re-Imagined looks at intractable problems...

Dental care is excluded from Canada’s universal healthcare system with services provided based on the ability to pay, leading large segments of the population to neglect care resulting in poor oral health and all its consequences. On a new Unpacking the News dentist and public healthcare activist Brandon Doucet joins host Andre Goulet for a conversation examining the little known history of dentis...

On the debut episode DATA DECODED Concordia University's Data Justice Hub welcomes Dr. Erin McElroy for a conversation discussing the American grassroots collective Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and their work gathering data on evictions with the aim of confronting gentrification, the challenges in advocating for tenants rights with the adoption of new tracking and surveillance technologies by lan...

Elizabeth Comack 's work in the sociology of law and feminist criminology and as a member of the Manitoba Research Alliance , a consortium of academics and community partners engaged in research addressing poverty in Indigenous and inner-city communities, has informed 14 books she's written or edited including ‘Coming Back to Jail: Women, Trauma, and Criminalization ’ and ‘Racialized Policing: Abo...

On a new Labour Intensive host Jody Tomchishen sits down with economist Jim Stanford to discuss inflation, interest rates, and bargaining for better wages. Visit his website: https://centreforfuturework.ca/ Follow him on Twitter:@JimboStanford Sign up for Press Progress' Shift Work newsletter for union updates curated by Emily Leedham: https://pressprogress.ca/shiftwork/ Support the show and becom...

An amazing array of independent media convened at Christie Pits park this month as Replay ’s Shama Rangwala , The Breach coordinating editor Emma Paling , analyst Chuka Ekjam , cartoonist Haus of Decline and Big Shiny Takes Institute senior fellows Marino Greco, Eric Wickham and Jeremy Appel sit down with host Andre Goulet to break down the candidates and issues, hopes and dreams and traumas and f...

Marxist scholar Shama Rangwala and activist and journalist Desmond Cole discuss rocks, fish, birds, women, the 2017 action-adventure game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and what it's like to publicly embrace being a gamer on so-called Canada's #1 leftist pop culture podcast.

On a new Unpacking the News former Saskatchewan NDP leadership candidate Kaitlyn Harvey and Edmonton city council candidate Navjot Kaur join journalist Haseena Manek in Halifax and host Andre Goulet in Montreal for a conversation exploring the exclusionary reflex of provincial NDP parties in the 2nd in a series of episodes produced in collaboration with Briarpatch celebrating the magazine's 50th a...

The Breach Show returned for a special Alberta election night special, and here are some highlights! Hosts Martin Lukacs and Aditya Rao are joined by a great lineup of guests from all over Alberta. Ricardo Acuña, Romy Garrido, Emma Jackson, Angele Alook, Brad Lafortune and Des Bissonnette unpack what Danielle Smith’s win means for Albertans and what Rachel Notley’s uninspiring campaign and ultimat...